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<td class="v">23:1</td>
<td>When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:</td>
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<td class="v">23:2</td>
<td>And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.</td>
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<td class="v">23:3</td>
<td>Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</td>
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<td class="v">23:4</td>
<td>Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.</td>
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<td class="v">23:5</td>
<td>Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.</td>
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<td class="v">23:6</td>
<td>Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:</td>
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<td class="v">23:7</td>
<td>For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:8</td>
<td>The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.</td>
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<td class="v">23:9</td>
<td>Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.</td>
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<td class="v">23:10</td>
<td>Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:</td>
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<td class="v">23:11</td>
<td>For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:12</td>
<td>Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.</td>
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<td class="v">23:13</td>
<td>Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.</td>
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<td class="v">23:14</td>
<td>Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.</td>
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<td class="v">23:15</td>
<td>My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.</td>
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<td class="v">23:16</td>
<td>Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.</td>
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<td class="v">23:17</td>
<td>Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.</td>
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<td class="v">23:18</td>
<td>For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.</td>
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<td class="v">23:19</td>
<td>Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.</td>
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<td class="v">23:20</td>
<td>Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:</td>
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<td class="v">23:21</td>
<td>For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</td>
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<td class="v">23:22</td>
<td>Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.</td>
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<td class="v">23:23</td>
<td>Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">23:24</td>
<td>The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:25</td>
<td>Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.</td>
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<td class="v">23:26</td>
<td>My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.</td>
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<td class="v">23:27</td>
<td>For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.</td>
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<td class="v">23:28</td>
<td>She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.</td>
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<td class="v">23:29</td>
<td>Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?</td>
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<td class="v">23:30</td>
<td>They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.</td>
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<td class="v">23:31</td>
<td>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.</td>
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<td class="v">23:32</td>
<td>At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.</td>
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<td class="v">23:33</td>
<td>Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.</td>
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<td class="v">23:34</td>
<td>Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.</td>
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<td class="v">23:35</td>
<td>They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.</td>
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